Babel

BABEL (2006) - Jan. 27, 2007
I can't help but feel a bit disappointed by this, the third film from director Alejandro González Iñárritu and writer Guillermo Arriaga (and apparently their last). That's not to say it was bad; it was very good. But after the mind-blowingly excellent Amores Perros, and the almost-as-good 21 Grams, a very good movie can't help but be disappointing. Featuring four stories linked by the shooting of an American woman in Morocco, this was a really well made film. The performances were also uniformly excellent. But the movie felt a bit on the long side -- somewhere towards the end, my interest started to wane (at 142 minutes, this was actually around 10 minutes shorter than Amores Perros, and yet it felt longer). Oh well. It was still quite good. ***1/2